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Active display gets updated today

It seems to be just some bug fixing: http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-updates-active-display-bugfixes-renames-motorola-care-help

freeintruth said:
It seems to be just some bug fixing: http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-updates-active-display-bugfixes-renames-motorola-care-help
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Yeah, there were quite a few bugs with 1.2.8. I had to send a full bug report to Motorola, as did others.
Some issues included:
Notifications not working with certain apps
AN failing to wake the screen when device was moved
AN failing to wake the screen when a notification arrived
AN failing to open an app from the AN screen

Active display STILL doesn't show any notifications for me.

trevorftard said:
Active display STILL doesn't show any notifications for me.
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Same here. It was showing notifications for a few days then stopped.

The Tallest said:
Same here. It was showing notifications for a few days then stopped.
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I turned off active display because any movement and it would turn on the clock and catch my eye which is very distracting and annoying, anyway to disable that without disabling the whole feature?

Mine was working perfect, did a factory reset to try and fix the high android OS usage and now it's not working. This is very annoying.

evilp8ntballer7 said:
I turned off active display because any movement and it would turn on the clock and catch my eye which is very distracting and annoying, anyway to disable that without disabling the whole feature?
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If you go into the Apps side of the Activity Display you should be able to un-check the Clock and it won't show it anymore.
tu3218 said:
Mine was working perfect, did a factory reset to try and fix the high android OS usage and now it's not working. This is very annoying.
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I did that. Then remembered I took the Navigation buttons out via the Build.prop and had a hell of a time trying to reinstall everything without them. :laugh: I use LMT Pie Controls so I had to reinstall them through the Play Store before I could reinstall all my other apps. I then took LMT Pie Controls and made them flashable so that the next time I do a factory reset I can just reinstall them via recovery.
What irks me most is that half my notifications aren't working a week after buying the phone. When they worked the day I got it. Gmail doesn't show up, 1Weather doesn't show up, the battery no longer shows up. Outlook does and Messaging does. I know Motorola said there was a problem with 1Weather not working properly but the day I set my phone up a little over a week ago it worked. Now all of a sudden it doesn't, and Gmail should work but doesn't.
Also, does the image verification thing for the forum ever go away? It's kind of a PITA to remember it's there when I post. Guys, I'm not a robot. Seriously.

I turned off the sleep function of active display and now my notifications are working. I haven't tried turning it back on to see if it would work but just something to try for those who are having an issue.

trevorftard said:
Active display STILL doesn't show any notifications for me.
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Did you reboot the phone after updating? It's a highly integrated system function. It should require a reboot after updating. I noticed it acted the same as 1.2.8 until I restarted the phone.
evilp8ntballer7 said:
I turned off active display because any movement and it would turn on the clock and catch my eye which is very distracting and annoying, anyway to disable that without disabling the whole feature?
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Turn the phone face down or cover the proximity sensor face-up.

Just a suggestion. When some apps get updated like line app and some other apps, they get unchecked in that active notification select apps menu/setting. I have to go back and manually check them again to show up on active display.
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tu3218 said:
I turned off the sleep function of active display and now my notifications are working. I haven't tried turning it back on to see if it would work but just something to try for those who are having an issue.
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I'll have to try this.

Post your Lollipop 5.01 bugs here

Seems we should have a thread with bugs and if anyone knows how to fix them, solutions since we finally have Lollipop now.
First bug I've encountered is in Google Voice.
If you open the advanced settings, two of the options are grayed out that should be available... they allow google voice to hear you if you have an app open, or the screen turned off, and also to allow you to train it.
If you reboot your phone, you WILL have access to these settings for a short period of time before it dies again. just retain it then.
Voice search works if you have a homescreen open, or if you have google search open, but the additional functionality is busted.
I also searched, and it looks like Sprint users ran into the same thing when they got lollipop a month ago.

Where the hell is the samsung app store? Kind die for Samsung keeps crashing too! Wtf?

Its called either galaxy gifts, or galaxy apps.
I'd just clear the cache on it though instead of turning it off.. they offer some apps with exclusive add ons, and some freebies you might want.
Also, I remembered something mentioned a few days ago.. go into application settings and turn off dm-ignite.
(Its a browsing snoop app that collects your data, and send it to Verizon so they can share it with marketing partners so they can serve you advertisements in browsers and applications.)

RJV3 said:
Where the hell is the samsung app store? Kind die for Samsung keeps crashing too! Wtf?
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Go to Widgets and add the Galaxy widget to get to the Samsung store.

Not a bug, but it seems like one... this game is impossible! Has anyone had any luck with it? (Settings - About Phone - 5 taps on android version to get the lollipop logo, then swipe to get the game)
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When using the power button to lock the device, there is an ever slight delay. The screen goes black but I can still accidentally open an app when setting it down. I did the OTA without factory reset and then ended up doing a factory reset. Still there. It reminds me of what used to happen on some roms back in the SGIII days. It's not a deal breaker and if that's the biggest issue, I can live with it.

Major problems with graphics inside of games. Marvel contest of champions looks like [email protected]#t now. Everything is dark and dull. Have been unable to find any fix for it
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RJV3 said:
Where the hell is the samsung app store? Kind die for Samsung keeps crashing too! Wtf?
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Fyi, when on home if you click the all apps icon, and when browsing all your installed apps hit the menu ellipsis, galaxy apps is an option in that menu. Just lucked out when I found d it.
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Last night at 3am, got awoken to my phone vibrating for a notification even though do not disturb mode was on. Even had Llama put the phone to silent, still happened.

RJV3 said:
Where the hell is the samsung app store? Kind die for Samsung keeps crashing too! Wtf?
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In the stock touchwiz launcher with the app drawer open, hit the top right button (menu) and at the bottom is "Galaxy Essentials"

bond32 said:
In the stock touchwiz launcher with the app drawer open, hit the top right button (menu) and at the bottom is "Galaxy Essentials"
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Now that is odd. I have not seen that option since I had my Galaxy S5. Thought it was a Note thing. To confirm, it is not there and was never there on my Note 4. Wonder if it's because I purchased from Samsung rather than Verizon. Seems Samsung would include their own Essentials app though. All Verizon apps were present.

S health pedometer doesn't show on lock screen if lock screen notifications are enabled. And also with wifi on the mobile data arrows don't disappear and I'm still seeing some upload traffic on 4g while using wifi.

Mobalized said:
S health pedometer doesn't show on lock screen if lock screen notifications are enabled. And also with wifi on the mobile data arrows don't disappear and I'm still seeing some upload traffic on 4g while using wifi.
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Make sure that Download Booster is shut off...

dr12volt1338 said:
Make sure that Download Booster is shut off...
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It is. It's not transferring a lot of data but a very small amount.

Mobalized said:
It is. It's not transferring a lot of data but a very small amount.
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You might need to FDR. I also have notifications on lock screen enabled and as long as I don't have any notifications my pedometer shows up
Note 4Tified

dr12volt1338 said:
You might need to FDR. I also have notifications on lock screen enabled and as long as I don't have any notifications my pedometer shows up
Note 4Tified
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Do you have weather bug that displays the current temperature in the notification bar? That seems to count as a notification so as long as that's on no pedometer.

Mobalized said:
Do you have weather bug that displays the current temperature in the notification bar? That seems to count as a notification so as long as that's on no pedometer.
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No I keep my notification bar clear on the left. I think there is a way to set the priority level of weather bug notifications that will keep them off the lock screen. Seems I did it for play store on my S5 as I hated the lock screen notifications for app updates. I just can't remember how I did it.
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dr12volt1338 said:
No I keep my notification bar clear on the left. I think there is a way to set the priority level of weather bug notifications that will keep them off the lock screen. Seems I did it for play store on my S5 as I hated the lock screen notifications for app updates. I just can't remember how I did it.
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Changing priority either blocks the notifications on the bar all together, allows them, or leaves them saying "sensitive information blocked". I don't think there is anyway around it.

My Note 4 seemed very slow at first after the update, so I entered the recovery menu and cleaned the cache partition, and that seems to have fixed it.

Swappiness == 130?
I installed on 4/3. BOAF. I didn't factory reset, I did clear the system cache (several times). Pretty much everything seems great! For a while- except, it is burning the hell out of my battery/CPU (which 4.4.4 never did) and I notice (via OS Monitor) that kswapd0 is running A LOT. Even when I am showing 450mb free, kswapd0 is using 6-10%. Often it goes up to 23% and my battery lasts 1/2 what it did before. I've rebooted a number of times, no change.
So, I started looking into kswapd0 and one parameter that is important is 'swappiness'.
I checked : cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
And it says : 130
Yes, 130! That's pretty insane - the standard default is usually around 60 (and could stand to be even less, frankly on a 3gb device like this). But anyhow, 130 is causing major issues!

Has anyone been able to get the advanced calling to work? I activated it but the option to video call is grayed out? Any ideas?
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Screen Overlay - Draw Over Screen permission greyed out. Cannot toggle.

Now and then my 6P informs me that Screen Overlay has been detected and that if I want to change the rights for this setting, I must disable screen overlay in Settings > Apps. If I tick Open Settings, and tick any random app, the option to allow that the app will draw over other apps has been greyed out. It doesn't matter whether an app already has this permission or not. I cannot toggle it.
I have searched quite some time now but I cannot find the solution. Anyone here with a brilliant idea?
Thanks

Only certain apps have the "Draw over other apps" option available to them (Twitch, Skype, Lux, Twilight, etc.). From Google-ing the issue, it appears that certain functions in Android and some apps won't work when they're being drawn over. Are you using an app like Twilight or Lux that warms your display at night? If so, disabling them temporarily should allow you to change permission settings on apps.

BillyTheRatKing said:
Only certain apps have the "Draw over other apps" option available to them (Twitch, Skype, Lux, Twilight, etc.). From Google-ing the issue, it appears that certain functions in Android and some apps won't work when they're being drawn over. Are you using an app like Twilight or Lux that warms your display at night? If so, disabling them temporarily should allow you to change permission settings on apps.
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Thanks for your reply. This made me thinking and I realised that I have the ScreenAdjuster app installed. After freezing that with TiBu I was able to perform the action that I wanted. So problem solved (at least I'd like to think so). The only thing that still puzzles me is that the toggle for allowing to draw over another app is greyed out at every app.

JazzMozz said:
Thanks for your reply. This made me thinking and I realised that I have the ScreenAdjuster app installed. After freezing that with TiBu I was able to perform the action that I wanted. So problem solved (at least I'd like to think so). The only thing that still puzzles me is that the toggle for allowing to draw over another app is greyed out at every app.
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The majority of apps do not have the option available at all. Skype has it so you can view video call while in a different app, Facebook has it for their chat bubble system, and a some others that do similar things. As well as a bunch of Google apps for seemingly no reason.

BillyTheRatKing said:
The majority of apps do not have the option available at all. Skype has it so you can view video call while in a different app, Facebook has it for their chat bubble system, and a some others that do similar things. As well as a bunch of Google apps for seemingly no reason.
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All clear and problem solved 100%. Thanks again!

BillyTheRatKing said:
Only certain apps have the "Draw over other apps" option available to them (Twitch, Skype, Lux, Twilight, etc.). From Google-ing the issue, it appears that certain functions in Android and some apps won't work when they're being drawn over. Are you using an app like Twilight or Lux that warms your display at night? If so, disabling them temporarily should allow you to change permission settings on apps.
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I don't have any of those apps but I still get screen overlay problem. Plus draw over other apps is also greyed out Help

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASM57Sl393g

what the heck is screen overlay detected on axiom 7

It about stops me from doing uploading pictures, downloading. It's driving me crazy anyone else having this problem?

Yea lots of people are. Anything that changes the status of the screen like some kind of screen filter like twilight, night owl, any of those things, can mess with this. It's been pretty annoying. I have Twilight set to a timer to eliminate blue light on the screen before sleeping and I have to freeze and defrost it several times a day. Apparently it's an issue with ZTE. There is a thread over there about it.

presley07 said:
It about stops me from doing uploading pictures, downloading. It's driving me crazy anyone else having this problem?
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I guess that it should actually be a security feature to prevent an overlay app from abusing any open apps below it... but it is really annoying that the ZTE integrated feature Mi-POP will also make this warnings display... you can simply deactivate it through its notification bar shortcut but it's still annoying...

Gachmuret said:
I guess that it should actually be a security feature to prevent an overlay app from abusing any open apps below it... but it is really annoying that the ZTE integrated feature Mi-POP will also make this warnings display... you can simply deactivate it through its notification bar shortcut but it's still annoying...
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Well for now I am backup and running, I shot down the phone and restated posting ok

presley07 said:
Well for now I am backup and running, I shot down the phone and restated posting ok
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I'm going to guess you have MiPop enabled? is so turn it off and your screen overlay issue might go away.

Gatorguy2 said:
I'm going to guess you have MiPop enabled? is so turn it off and your screen overlay issue might go away.
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I an checked everything and it did no good, mipop and all else. Restarted phone and all was OK, hope this helps others with the same issue

presley07 said:
I an checked everything and it did no good, mipop and all else. Restarted phone and all was OK, hope this helps others with the same issue
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Screen overlay is new in 6.0 to prevent apps from creating an overlay and giving permissions to themselves. It's not an issue with ZTE.

Yes screen overlay is new. Came from a N6 and never had this problem on stock 6.0 from Google. Facebook messenger will not do anything other than message can't call, or send pictures. Yes it is a problem with ZTE
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Go to the "Apps" setting, and then click on the "gear-shaped" setting button to go to the "Draw over other apps" menu and turn off all apps that are enabled. Go back to the "Apps" setting and click on the app that needs permissions modified. When all the permissions are updated, go back and enable the "Draw over other apps" for those apps you disabled.

Use this app it will get rid of that annoying overlay issue.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.sfapps.installbuttonunlocker

MIUI notes/tips

I don't know about anyone else, but this is my first MIUI phone.
I thought it would be useful to start a thread regarding MIUI notes/tips/etc that are specific to MIUI.
The first big one of course - how to fix push notifications:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/...ions-on-xiaomis-miui-8-for-real/#11f834174e1b

I was about to start this very thread
I found a cool feature
You can select several photos for deleting by simply gliding your fingers over the photos
Another cool feature
You can orient that device do that it's upside
The top bezel-less becomes downwards.
The phone is also programmed to rotate it to the standard orientation during a phone call because of Mic location.

One thing I quite like is how specific WIFI connects can be disabled without having to remove them.
Our work WIFI blocks certain things, so it's nice to be able to disable it but not have
to totally remove it (and then reenter all the passwords when I re-enter it).

ChodTheWacko said:
One thing I quite like is how specific WIFI connects can be disabled without having to remove them.
Our work WIFI blocks certain things, so it's nice to be able to disable it but not have
to totally remove it (and then reenter all the passwords when I re-enter it).
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What do you mean

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What do you mean
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For each WIFI connection, there is a little > to the right of it.
If you touch that you go into another menu, and one option is 'auto connect on/off'.
Turning off autoconnect helps in situations where there are multiple WIFI signals, but you only want it autoconnecting to a specific one.
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2 finger swipe on notifications displays their details (or what is called Peek)

ChodTheWacko said:
For each WIFI connection, there is a little > to the right of it.
If you touch that you go into another menu, and one option is 'auto connect on/off'.
Turning off autoconnect helps in situations where there are multiple WIFI signals, but you only want it autoconnecting to a specific one.
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Thanks for clarifying.
What if I'm in the range of two networks that I've saved the passwords for.
Which does the mi mix connect to when I enter range?
Looks like the last one I've connected to.
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2 finger swipe on notifications displays their details (or what is called Peek)
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That's actually a primitive way of doing it.
Samsung did it better by letting you 'peek' one-handedly with a simple swipe down of the notification.
With mi mix, I have to use two hands. I can do it with one hand but it's tough.

CorruptedSanity said:
That's actually a primitive way of doing it.
Samsung did it better by letting you 'peek' one-handedly with a simple swipe down of the notification.
With mi mix, I have to use two hands. I can do it with one hand but it's tough.
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And just found out, we can't "swipe away" the notifications from the lockscreen directly. Need to pull down the shade and clear from there. Would this not be considered a stupid decision?!

saurabhsun said:
And just found out, we can't "swipe away" the notifications from the lockscreen directly. Need to pull down the shade and clear from there. Would this not be considered a stupid decision?!
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Perhaps there's a solution if you root/install Xposed & a module is available for lockscreen options.
I'm rooted,but, haven't used Xposed in ages, considering trying it again......
On Samsung devices,(non-root) Ad Blocking apps have a persistent notification on the lockscreen that cannot be swiped away,.The only remedy for this was to turn off the ad blocking.
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How to always have mobile data allow to download app from playstore ? Have disable only wifi in playstore settings but always prompt to have wifi
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mobile88 said:
How to always have mobile data allow to download app from playstore ? Have disable only wifi in playstore settings but always prompt to have wifi
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Open Downloads app, Triple Dot, Settings, Set unlimited download limit for mobile. This resolves that issue.

TQ very much for that tip
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youtube /watch?v=NG7GmbVGBlA
A guide to uninstall a few of the system apps such as Chinese Keyboard, Messaging app etc.

saurabhsun said:
youtube /watch?v=NG7GmbVGBlA
A guide to uninstall a few of the system apps such as Chinese Keyboard, Messaging app etc.
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I followed all the steps.
I understood that there are several instances of settings and installed apps.
I went through all of them but still could not disable or uninstall pre-loaded apps like Mi Credit, Mi Cloud and all those Mi nonsense apps.

CorruptedSanity said:
I followed all the steps.
I understood that there are several instances of settings and installed apps.
I went through all of them but still could not disable or uninstall pre-loaded apps like Mi Credit, Mi Cloud and all those Mi nonsense apps.
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Those are uninstallable I guess (as Mi earns from these apps and not selling the phone), few rubbish were uninstalled using this method.

I should be able to disable them though
Apparently not

Some more MIUI notes:
menu + volume down = screenshot
hardware test: dial *#*#6484#*#*
More phone info: dial *#*#4636#*#*
There is a toggle to disable the navigation buttons (double tap them to re-enable)
handy if you keep accidentally hitting them.
in 'buttons' can auto disable for any particular app (games)
In accessibility there is a magnification mode - triple tap to allow/disable zooming of screen. (EDIT: it's bugged - it isn't supposed to trigger during keyboard typing,but it does, effectively making it useless)
wake with volume buttons is in lockscreen menu, not "button"

There are some apps that just won't stay uninstalled. Anyone got idea how to remove them? PPTV for example

Kildras said:
There are some apps that just won't stay uninstalled. Anyone got idea how to remove them? PPTV for example
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Needs to be rooted to remove system app